Here's a few notes from our March ESIG. We had three speakers, and our usual Portfolio discussion of individual photographs.
Gia introduced us to one of her favourite photographers. Ragner Axelson is an Icelandic documentary photographer, who has spend many years photographing the people, animals and the landscape of the most remote regions of the Artic. Gia illustrated her talk from two of Axelson's books, Faces of the North and Hetjur Nordursloda. Whist documentary in nature, the photographs were often beautiful composed, even artistic in style. Axelson claims to be influenced by Caravaggio and his use of light. Take a look at his web site: https://rax.is/
David (Archer) showed the work of Helene Binet who is an architectural photographer with a very distinctive style. Helene focused on the detail of the building, rather than the building as a whole, a bit like 'the intimate landscape' applied to architecture. David has provided several links worth following up. The first one shows Binet talking about her recent exhibition at the RA, and is worth a look.
Steve gave us a technical talk on the use of Frequency Separation in Photoshop. I hadn't come across this technique so it was very new to me. It is a technique which is applied most often in portraiture and is used to smooth out the skin without losing texture. Steve is preparing some notes on the technique which I shall circulate once I receive them.
A big thanks you to all our speakers, well done.
Finally we had our Portfolio discussion where we discussed individual photographs. I always enjoy these sessions and there is always more revealed than is apparent at first glance. I noticed that the RPS has just introduced something similar. I find this a very effective way to learn and explore photographs which I'm sure improves our own work.
One other thought - did you know all of my reports on ESIG meeting are uploaded onto the HPS web site by Bethan, our web master (thank you Bethan), so if you want to look back on what we did in the past, or particularly to follow up on any links or references, they are all on record below.
Hope to see some of you next month. I need some speakers so please volunteer.
Gia introduced us to one of her favourite photographers. Ragner Axelson is an Icelandic documentary photographer, who has spend many years photographing the people, animals and the landscape of the most remote regions of the Artic. Gia illustrated her talk from two of Axelson's books, Faces of the North and Hetjur Nordursloda. Whist documentary in nature, the photographs were often beautiful composed, even artistic in style. Axelson claims to be influenced by Caravaggio and his use of light. Take a look at his web site: https://rax.is/
David (Archer) showed the work of Helene Binet who is an architectural photographer with a very distinctive style. Helene focused on the detail of the building, rather than the building as a whole, a bit like 'the intimate landscape' applied to architecture. David has provided several links worth following up. The first one shows Binet talking about her recent exhibition at the RA, and is worth a look.
- https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/helene-binet
- Walkthrough tour of the Royal Academy exhibition on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZQIRNZmLNE
- And a review of the exhibition from the Architects Journal https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/culture/exhibition-helene-binet-light-lines-at-the-ra
Steve gave us a technical talk on the use of Frequency Separation in Photoshop. I hadn't come across this technique so it was very new to me. It is a technique which is applied most often in portraiture and is used to smooth out the skin without losing texture. Steve is preparing some notes on the technique which I shall circulate once I receive them.
A big thanks you to all our speakers, well done.
Finally we had our Portfolio discussion where we discussed individual photographs. I always enjoy these sessions and there is always more revealed than is apparent at first glance. I noticed that the RPS has just introduced something similar. I find this a very effective way to learn and explore photographs which I'm sure improves our own work.
One other thought - did you know all of my reports on ESIG meeting are uploaded onto the HPS web site by Bethan, our web master (thank you Bethan), so if you want to look back on what we did in the past, or particularly to follow up on any links or references, they are all on record below.
Hope to see some of you next month. I need some speakers so please volunteer.
